>>1249 I run a Sharkey (fork of Misskey) instance

>>1250 Is it a single-user (personal) instance or can we join you there?

>>1251 For now it's a single-user instance. Another friend of mine created an account there, but he doesn't use it anymore I wouldn't mind people joining, but I don't want to doxx myself

>>1252 >but I don't want to doxx myself why? i'll buy you some cookies

i was but i stopped hosting my instance a year ago. its just a massive circlejerk of do nothings.

>>1249 No, I only used Lemmy for a bit, but the constant fracturing of instances banning eachother just makes the entire platform unusable. I called SystemD gay once too, and I got a ton of replies just saying "we don't do that here sweetie" and "we don't use that word like that here". Never again.

>>1283 at first, lemmy was appealing to me for being a decentralized rival to reddit, but is it truly decentralized when all the big instances blacklist those instances that don't follow their extreme beliefs? lemmy users criticise reddit and redditors but they double down on everything that made reddit bad from a userbase perspective. doubling down on politics, moderation, censorship, etc i quickly left lemmy after that and never came back, and i dont even try mastodon because i know very well it's exactly the same thing but in twitter format

>>1308 forgot to talk about the circlejerk. both lemmy and reddit have a horrible circlejerk, a good example that isn't politics (because that one is obvious and eternal) is exactly that systemd situation. i find it so unnatural and surreal that all these people collectively defend something that hates us such as systemd or freedesktop

>>1309 corpos like redhat subsist on low iq people which is a common audience on reddit. they just hire a bunch of candy asss that spam arguments like "use whatever works, all software is good, software is just a tool" and since average reddit arch linux sucker doesn't have enough brain cells to parse through even such a trivial deception, they begin parroting the argument creating an avalanche. besides, arch linux was masterminded to have this superiority cult despite arch being a dumb and as-simple-as-possible piece of shit, so the avalanche is also reinforced by the idiots' belief they're somehow superior (in an ironic sense or not, it's the same thing effectively). it's basically unstoppable. the only way to make an OS that is resistant to such crowd manipulation is to openly telling them to btfo and ignoring their very existence. ironically this is what freedesktop does, but they act in bad faith and that makes all the difference.